Jan 22, 2014

Jan. 22 Daily Brief: World Economic Forum, snow covered mountains, traveling to school in a cycle rickshaw

Capturing a bead of sweat, a cross is covered by icicle, protests in Ukraine and more in today’s daily brief.

: Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani, Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif (L) and Mohammad Nahavandian the Head of Iran Presidential Office (R) arrive for a meeting during the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos January 22, 2014. (REUTERS/Denis Balibouse)

: A model presents a creation by Lebanese designer Elie Saab as part of his Haute Couture Spring/Summer 2014 fashion collection for in Paris, January 22, 2014. (REUTERS/Gonzalo Fuentes)

: A model presents a creation for French fashion house Maison Martin Margiela as part of its Haute Couture Spring/Summer 2014 fashion show in Paris, January 22, 2014. (REUTERS/Benoit Tessier)

: Visitors are silhouetted against a window of a restaurant as they look out at the snow covered mountain summits from Germany’s highest mountain the 2,962 metre (9,718 feet) Zugspitze, on a sunny day in the Bavarian village of Grainau January 22, 2014. (REUTERS/Michael Dalder)

: Schoolchildren travel to their school in a cycle rickshaw on a cold morning in the old quarters of Delhi January 22, 2014. (REUTERS/Ahmad Masood)

: Japan’s former Prime Minister Morihiro Hosokawa drinks water as he officially announces his bid to run for Tokyo governor during a news conference at the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Office in Tokyo January 22, 2014. (REUTERS/Toru Hanai)

: A man walks past the Bank of Japan building in Tokyo January 22, 2014. The Bank of Japan kept monetary policy steady on Wednesday and maintained its upbeat inflation forecasts, suggesting that no imminent monetary easing is on the horizon as the country’s economic recovery broadens. (REUTERS/Yuya Shino)

: A Palestinian man looks out a window beside bloodstains on the wall of a house at the scene of an Israeli air strike in Beit Hanoun, in the northern Gaza Strip January 22, 2014. Israel killed two Gaza gunmen in an air strike on Wednesday, blaming one of them for firing rockets across the border during former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s funeral last week. Islamic Jihad claimed one man, Ahmed Al-Za’anin, as its own, without immediately commenting on the other’s affiliation. (REUTERS/Suhaib Salem)

: A man holds a mirror reflecting the Spanish flag during a protest outside the Spanish embassy in Panama City January 22, 2014. Demonstrators protested against the Spanish building company Sacyr, one of the leading members of the consortium to expand the Panama Canal. protesters used mirrors resembling how Spanish conquerors exchanged mirrors for gold to the Indians when they first arrived to America. (REUTERS/Carlos Jasso)

: A cross is covered by icicle caused by frozen rain in Alojzow near Ilza, January 22, 2014. (REUTERS/Kacper Pempel)

: A girl carries a sign that reads ‘300 children without education since two years’ during a campaign organised by activists in the besieged area of Homs, January 22, 2014. Activists erected yellow signs in the besieged area of Homs as part of a campaign called “Yellow covers the besieged area of Homs”. The campaign aims to shed light on what is happening inside the area which is suffering severe food and medical shortages, and calling on humanitarian organisations to help and evacuate the families and wounded people. (REUTERS/Yazan Homsy)

: United States Secretary of State John Kerry looks out at Lake Geneva outside of his meeting room in Montreux January 22, 2014. Syria’s government and its enemies come face to face on Wednesday for the first time as world powers try to set aside their own differences and push for an end to three years of civil war that is unsettling the entire Middle East. (REUTERS/Gary Cameron)

: A bead of sweat drips from Rafael Nadal of Spain during his men’s singles quarter-final tennis match against Grigor Dimitrov of Bulgaria at the Australian Open 2014 tennis tournament in Melbourne January 22, 2014. (REUTERS/Bobby Yip)

: Thai soldiers install a wire barricade at the Permanent Secretary of Defense in Bangkok January 22, 2014. A leader of Thailand’s pro-government “red shirt” movement was shot and wounded in a drive-by shooting on Wednesday in the northeastern town of Udon Thani, in what police said appeared to be a politically motivated attack. (REUTERS/Chaiwat Subprasom)

: A pro-European protester throws a Molotov cocktail towards riot police near burning tyres during clashes in Kiev January 22, 2014. Ukraine’s prime minister denounced anti-government protesters as “terrorists” on Wednesday, but in what appeared to be his first real move to end weeks of unrest President Viktor Yanukovich held talks with opposition leaders. (REUTERS/Gleb Garanich)

: Two women are framed by icicles and mounds of frozen ice as they walk along a beach in Chicago, Illinois, January 21, 2014. (REUTERS/Jim Young)

: A Northern Cardinal sits on a tree branch in falling snow in the New York City suburb of Nyack, New York January 21, 2014. A fast moving winter storm was forecast to dump as much as a foot of snow on the northeastern United States on Tuesday with winter storm warnings and advisories issued from the central Appalachian Mountains north to southern New England. (REUTERS/Mike Segar)